Julia Farrugia Portelli is a Maltese politician, currently serving as Minister for Inclusion and Social Wellbeing.
[4] She has successfully implemented the VOTE16 reform, where Malta is now one of two European Union Member states that have lowered their voting age to 16.
[6] Farrugia Portelli is a former journalist and anchor of a number of current affairs and investigative journalism programmes.
[clarification needed][7][8] In 2020, The Commissioner for Standards in Public Life found that Farrugia Portelli may have given an improper advantage to a private firm selling citizenship by investment schemes.
The Commissioner held that “there is a fine line between promoting a Government scheme and giving preferential treatment to a particular agent.